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Neutral Tactics in War...
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Dyaven
#1 - 2012-02-07 17:50:50 UTC
...need to be fixed. 50 Neutral Velators and Machariels should not be able to function as a way of trapping someone outside of docking range of a station for eternity.
CCP has been pushing out a lot of promotional videos and ads lately and every one I see gives me that little bit of nostalgia of what I thought EVE was when I first joined. Epic fleet battles, space Pirates, economic wars. But in reality it boils down to ****** 10 year old aggression mechanics and abusing the games physics engine to troll people to death.

No, I'm not quitting.
No, you can't have my stuff.
No, I'm not mad.

I just know I'm not the only victim of the bump-Machariel-of-doom and I'm sure there are others who feel the same way as I do about this.
Andski
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-02-07 17:56:14 UTC
join a nullsec corp and suddenly you'll experience the epic fleet battles, space pirates and economic wars

you also won't have to worry about dumb unshootable neutrals, heh!

also, aren't you able to petition that?

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Dyaven
#3 - 2012-02-07 17:58:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Dyaven
I have experienced nullsec and it's whole different slew of issues, but ones that are mostly legitimate game mechanics that I personally just do not enjoy, and there is nothing wrong with that.

And no, as far as I'm aware neutral bumping is considered to be within the games rules.
Destination SkillQueue
Doomheim
#4 - 2012-02-07 17:59:46 UTC
Why not warp away or actually fight? If you warped to a station, you could have just immediately docked. Surely you weren't just playing station games, because that would be a pretty clear case of abusing the game mechanics.
Dyaven
#5 - 2012-02-07 18:01:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Dyaven
Destination SkillQueue wrote:
Why not warp away or actually fight? If you warped to a station, you could have just immediately docked. Surely you weren't just playing station games, because that would be a pretty clear case of abusing the game mechanics.


Because an actual wartarget had me scrambled in a ship that otherwise would have had absolutely zero chance of winning a fight against what I was flying. But neutral RR and him having all day to kill me meant the odds were suddenly 100% in his favor. And no, they were waiting for me to undock. If undocking to see if there are any WTs outside is considered "playing station games" then I'm not sure what to say.
Kehro Urgus
University of Caille
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2012-02-07 18:06:21 UTC
Don't you hate Dodixie?P

Yeeee!